The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám / done into English by Edward Fitzgerald ; with illustrations by Paul McPharlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

McPharlin, Paul, 1903-1948, illustrator.

Cobbledick, Carl, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Rubāʻīyāt. English

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Persian poetry--Translations into English.

Quatrains, Persian--Translations into English.

Persian poetry.

Quatrains, Persian.

Genre:

Translations.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Archer (Paper)

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Gerry, Vance (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume ( 48 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon : Peter Pauper Press, [1940]

Notes:

Issued in slip case.

"The present edition of the poem follows Fitzgerald's first edition text ... The border designs... have been drawn by Carl Cobbledick"--page [5]

"The present text has been made to conform to that of the first edition."

"This book is set in Baskerville types and is printed on wove Archer paper"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has bookplate reading: From the Library of Vance Gerry The Weather Bird Press.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 447 (page 124)

OCLC:

5722831